Canadian Heritage committee  Some will say there's never enough money to meet all needs. With regard to feature films, as you know, we're preparing our response to the committee's report. In our analysis, we have noted that the committee itself has asked us to consider the program in the context of existing

Canadian Heritage committee  Indeed, it's also a matter of political decisions. I'm merely noting that the committee asked us for a response that assumed a stable fiscal framework.

Canadian Heritage committee  In the Lincoln report, this committee proposed and the government implemented a simplified structure where the broad public policy direction with respect to Canadian production financing was coming from the minister, who would ask the CTF to set the sort of level two public polic

Canadian Heritage committee  In the normal cycle of the program in a department, there are always evaluations, and they're conducted on average every five years or so. I'm not an expert on Bill C-2, and I'm not speaking out on the subject, but it changes nothing in current practice. It may be every three yea

Canadian Heritage committee  I'd like to add that one of the challenges in the development of a bill of this kind is that the experts are monopolized by Bill C-2. It entails exactly the same issues. Consequently, the same people, the same legal experts are working on this bill, which is somewhat delaying our

Canadian Heritage committee  I don't want to be bureaucratic in the answer, but it's not my program, so I have absolutely no idea how it works out. I can bring it to the attention of my colleague, but I personally have no knowledge of it, so I wouldn't want to mislead by providing any answer I'm not an exper

Canadian Heritage committee  Just to conclude, Mr. Chairman, on page 6, this is about results. I can tell you one of my first things when I arrived in this new job was realizing that we weren't telling our results story as well as we could, and I put a great deal of emphasis on this in the group. Since I've

Canadian Heritage committee  With respect to the other study of the Auditor General, you should have in front of you a short deck. I'll just walk through it. It basically summarizes what we have done so far since the November report was tabled. May I say, just from the outset, that I'd like to thank the co

Canadian Heritage committee  Yes, Mr. Chair. We are thinking of dividing it because there are two reports. So Lyn Elliot Sherwood will deal with one of the reports briefly, and Jean-François Bernier and I will deal with the second report.